Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Embleton

Embleton, par., township and vil. with ry. sta., N. Northumberland, 6½ miles NE. of Alnwick -- par., 13,507 ac. and 452 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 2217; township, 2077 ac. and 84 foreshore, pop. 643; the vicarage is one of 3 in Northumberland that were fortified; it still has a machicolated tower.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish, township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Embleton AP/CP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Embleton

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